Did you read the article on Yahoos home page? What is your opinion?
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin/8441/riaa-demands-payments-from-college-students
It makes me realize how desperate the record industry has gotten. It is pathetic that they would resort to sueing college kids to try and scare people out of downloading. I think it is only a matter of time before the RIAA is gone or completely restructured. They cant stop it so why don't they spend some of those legal fees on finding a way to use it?
2007-03-11 06:25:12 · 4 answers · asked by DB 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
If people bought music legally they wouldn't need to protect the rights of artists. I think it is good to sue the colleges to show that they mean business. If you take a cd from a store you can go to jail, shouldn't you have the same effects if you illegally download an album? Either way you are stealing. You can always go through iTunes or Napster or buy a cd, there are many legal options out there.
2007-03-11 06:30:46 · answer #1 · answered by Foxalot 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The RIAA is certainly missing the boat. The crux of the problem is CDs are overpriced generally. Take a lesson from the movie industry. When VHS videos were priced at $80 to $120 each, sales were low and piracy rampant. When the price of video dropped to the cost of 2 theater tickets, they sold by millions. Now studios can't wait to get a new release into video, because that is where the real money is made. Even a theatrical flop can turn a tidy profit in video.
The point of the RIAA is that CD sales are down. What they are not telling you is digital sales for the hit songs are up. Translation, people are willing to pay 99 cents for a winner song, but not $15 bucks for an album that is either padded with losers, or at the very least songs that don't get air play. Downloading gives the potential CD buyer a chance to sample the rest of the songs, not just hits and decide if the group is really something more than the typical RIAA one hit wonder.
If the RIAA does not like this form of free advertising, then they need to drop the cost of CD albums to a more reasonable price point. When the consumer thinks 99 cents to get the hit, or $4.00 for the whole enchilada, you would see a dramatic increase in CD sales.
Young people are risk takers, always hoping to get fair value for their money. Now its time for RIAA to step up to the plate and deliver. And to stop the deception of not reporting internet based sales.
2007-03-11 07:14:46 · answer #2 · answered by lare 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thery ARE pathetic. It jut reveals them as greedy animals they are, they don't do it for the musicians' sake, but for their own. If I at all could do something, I'd help those kids out and encourage piracy so they end up in the streets. But thank those pus-sies in Metallica, they started it all with their attack on Napster.
2007-03-11 06:36:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it´s stupid to sue for that......
2007-03-11 06:30:21 · answer #4 · answered by Patrik S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋